| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Nicolas Cage | ... | Ben Gates | |
| Justin Bartha | ... | Riley Poole | |
| Diane Kruger | ... | Abigail Chase | |
| Jon Voight | ... | Patrick Gates | |
| Helen Mirren | ... | Emily Appleton | |
| Ed Harris | ... | Mitch Wilkinson | |
| Harvey Keitel | ... | Sadusky | |
| Bruce Greenwood | ... | The President | |
| Ty Burrell | ... | Connor | |
| Michael Maize | ... | Daniel | |
| Timothy V. Murphy | ... | Seth (as Timothy Murphy) | |
| Alicia Coppola | ... | FBI Agent Spellman | |
| Armando Riesco | ... | FBI Agent Hendricks | |
| Albert Hall | ... | Dr. Nichols | |
| Joel Gretsch | ... | Thomas Gates | |
While Benjamin Gates (Nicolas Cage) is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the eighteen pages missing from Booth's diary, a man by the name of Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned on the page. It shows that Ben's great-grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), and Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) to Buckingham Palace (into which they break). They discover a plank that has early Native American writing on it. The plank has only one symbol that Patrick Gates (Jon Voight) can identify. The symbol is Cibola (see-bowl-uh), meaning the City of Gold. In order to define the rest they have to go to Ben's mother, Patrick's divorced wife, Emily Appleton (Dame Helen Mirren). After thirty-two years, it brings back old arguments. After that, the other clue is in the ... Written by mviedirctr354
It was a good movie but not as good as the first one. I think that its just the same story as the first one with very little changes. Treasure hunter Ben Gates tries to clean its name by looking for an ancient treasure. The first half of the movie is kinda slow and even tiresome, too much talking and very little action. But it gets better on the second part towards to the end. The cast is excellent, Nicolas Cage in a role he knows very well, Jon Voight as Cage fathers is very convincing, Ed Harris is the bad guy that the only thing he wants is to find the treasure and keep it to himself, Harvey Keitel as an FBI agent wit a brief but convincing performance and Helen Mirren as Nicola's mother with a good and even funny performance. Although this movie isn't the greatest thing, it is very enjoyable and entertaining, perfect to spend some time with the family.